According to Millhouse (1987), the term "I … According to Millhouse (1987), the term "Islands of Calleja" has not been applied consistently and there is confusion about the features to which Calleja was referring in his 1893 paper. The term has come to be identified with the clusters of granule cells found in the olfactory tubercle but the original paper may have been pointing to the dense cell layer. He recommended that it be dropped (Millhouse, J Comp Neurol., 265: 1-24, 1987).
Meyer et al. prefer that only those aggregates within the olfactory tubercle be called Islands of Calleja and that the term "clusters of granule cells" be adopted elsewhere. rs of granule cells" be adopted elsewhere.

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